Saturday, October 3, 2009

What to celebrate how to celebrate....these were the some of the things that Chris and I talked about before bringing Sophie home. We decided to integrate the Mid Autumn festival and Chinese New Year in to our family celebrations. We are not going to pretend that we celebrate these festivals accurately but we bring bits and pieces in to our family traditions. So along with hiding Easter Baskets (Chris' family tradition) , leaving out wooden shoes for St.Nicholas (my family tradition) and celebrating Mid Autumn festival and CNY we are a family with lots of celebrations all year long!!

Sophie brought mooncakes and a moon festival book to school today to share with her friends. We made this recipe below and added some powdered sugar for added fun:)

4 comments:

We could have used this recipe yesterday we went to a Moon Festival in Reno NV and it snowed just like Ho-Ho we did not get to see the moon and they bought moon cake and they were not very good. They also had cupcakes and Annalise thought she was eating a moon cake. I guess you can call it American style moon cakes. I like yours better and will try then.

Thanks for sharing this. We're still working through the conversations about what to celebrate, how to celebrate, and so on. We gave ourselves permission to take this year to focus more on the attaching and settling in. So now the pressure is in to finalize the conversation :) This looks like a recipe I can wrap my brain around while we figure ourselves out :)